Robby

Designed and developed at the Delft BioRobotics Laboratory, Robby is an affordable robot. The design of the robot is based on the Delft Personal Robot 2 platform, which was also created by the Delft Bio-Robotics Laboratory (DBL).

Designed and developed at the Delft Bio-Robotics Laboratory, Robby shares several similarities with the robot Lea. In addition to having an identical platform to Lea, Robby also has a similar sensor. Just like the robot Lea, Robby is capable of performing a variety of tasks, combining high-tech speech recognition, person tracking, object recognition as well as autonomous navigation.

The Delft Robotics team aims at developing cost-effective personal robots that can serve useful purposes in care or domestic environment. The robot Robby is also part of the Delft Robotics team. Robby participated in the RoboCup@Home competition to represent the TU Delft in June, 2012. The world championship for robots was held in Mexico-City and Robby entered the competition for autonomous service robots.

The competition involved robots that could face challenges such as taking and delivering orders, finding people, performing cleaning tasks and following a human instructor through a crowded room. Around 15 TU Delft students along with researchers accompanied Robby to Mexico.